title: Performance-based staff development. A baseline for clinical competence.
abstract: Changes in health-care financing, complex technological advancements, and an expanding nursing knowledge base have made it increasingly difficult for health care educators to assess and enhance the development of professional nurses. Using a set of objective evaluation methods and tools, educators assessed the competency of novice and experienced staff. This information identified learning and practice needs that formed the bases for individualized orientation and clinical educational programs.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Snyder-Halpern
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Buczkowski
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D013192:Staff Development